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by ouid 4y ago
I'm not sure what he means by the naive scientific method. It has always been a fundamentally adversarial process, nothing new is being discovered here. The scientific method as it has always existed requires two heuristics from you, t
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by ouid 4y ago
Compiler optimization is very much CS.
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by ouid 4y ago
This is not the job of science journalists. The job of science journalists is to make money for someone. The honor system is just the name that people who dont understand corruption give to no system at all. If you want journalism to be bet
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by ouid 4y ago
My brother in christ, most of the people who voted for donald trump did so because they think he's smart. Its a good goal. its a terrible strategy.
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by ouid 4y ago
>The strategy itself is good. You cannot factor the strategy from its implementation here. I think that was trying to be your point but then you contradicted yourself. I must encourage you to commit. A dumb person who tries to find sma
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by ouid 4y ago
That's a fairly serious accusation to level. Google's bad behavior here is not that their compression algorithm ruined users photos. Google's bad behavior is running a compression algorithm at all.
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by ouid 4y ago
Its not really a game of cat and mouse. Law enforcement can seek penalties sufficient to prevent the behavior from proliferating.
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by ouid 4y ago
5 percent growth for just the length of human history overflows the double precision floating point type.
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by ouid 4y ago
you dont need to make people do anything.
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by ouid 4y ago
i dunno man, the peaceniks need to elaborate on what ukraine should have done if not petition the US military for its weapons.
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by ouid 4y ago
no dice, you'd have to climb it, and that would be exercise.
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by ouid 4y ago
if you dont include a mute, i will boycott every single website that uses your product.
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by ouid 4y ago
no, you see, update are important for security, so it is always legal for any company to install, via a backdoor, anything else they want to for any reason, provided it is also possible for them to also fix bugs that they have introduced th
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by ouid 4y ago
In what fucking universe has any business major ever passed as smart?
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by ouid 4y ago
>infinite exponential growth which is impossible on a finite planet. its impossible in any space with non negative curvature. the kind of growth that is unsustainable in a finite region is any growth at all.
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by ouid 4y ago
"trusted computing"
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by ouid 4y ago
you think youtube ads are uninvasive?
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by ouid 4y ago
security here meansgoogle being able to ensure you are running the code that google gave you, instead of illegally running your own code.
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by ouid 4y ago
It is illegal to enforce it.
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by ouid 4y ago
bourbaki is unusual among math textbooks, to say the least.
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by ouid 4y ago
it is natural that the first language you would choose to write your program in is something that you can natively compile.
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by ouid 4y ago
did you fail to read the eminent domain part?
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by ouid 4y ago
>“There are some who think we shouldn’t do anything clandestine in that space. Ceding an entire domain to an adversary would be unwise. But we need stronger policy guardrails.” I don't think this point is entirely without merit. We
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by ouid 4y ago
Vice really doubled down on dogshit journalism.
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by ouid 4y ago
Make loans dischargeable in bankruptcy after some fixed amount of time. Say 10 years. Offer subsidies to loans that are older than this. Emminent domain all existing student loans. Ignore the resulting inflation.
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by ouid 4y ago
Hanlon's razor is a boundary condition. No one knows how to play the game at the start. Humans get better at shit.
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by ouid 4y ago
The phenomenon is better explained by: much higher arrest rates -> fewer people doing it -> fewer people to arrest -> lower arrest rates.
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by ouid 4y ago
the suitable features are customers that aren't normies.
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by ouid 4y ago
The main problem with technology in the past (~2) decades, aka modern technology, is that it has been virtually all developed under the business model of advertising. I don't care how much of your income comes from advertising, you sho
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by ouid 4y ago
I suppose we're going to need hardware GPS spoofers then.

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